Hird, H., Brown, J. & Chisholm, J., The detection of commercial duck species in food using a singleprobe - multiple species specific primer real-time PCR assay. European Food Research and Technology 221:559-563

Hird, H., Hold, G., Chisholm, J., Reece, P., Russell, V., Brown, J., Goodier, R. & Macarthur, R. (2005) Development of a method for the quantification of Haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) in commercial products using real-time PCR.  European Food Research and Technology 220:633-637

Macarthur, R., Murray, A.W.A., Allnutt, T.R., Deppe, C., Hird, H., Kerins, G.M., Blackburn, J., Brown, J., Stones, R. & Hugo, S.  (2007) Model for tuning GMO detection in seed and grain. Nat Biotechnol. 25(2):169-70.

Chisholm, J., Sánchez, A., Brown, J. and Hird, H. The development of species-specific real-time PCR assays for the detection of pheasant and quail in food.  Food Analytical Methods published online 9th June 2008.

Hez J. Hird , James Chisholm, Joy Kaye, Alison Colyer, George Hold, Christine M. Conyers, Jaione Irazu Núñez, Roy Macarthur.  Development of real-time PCR assays for the detection of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua), Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and European plaice (Pleuronectes platessa) in complex food samples. European Food Research and Technology 234:127-136.

CM Conyers, TR Allnutt, HJ Hird, J Kaye, J Chisholm.  Development of a Microsatellite-Based Method for the Differentiation of European Wild Boar (Sus scrofa scrofa) from Domestic Pig Breeds (Sus scrofa domestica) in Food.  J. Agric. Food Chem., 2012, 60 (13), pp 3341–3347 Publication Date (Web): March 12, 2012.